Structure and Imagery

Clockwise: David Pollack ,  Kamonchanok Phon-Ngam , Nancy Elisamanoundi and Paul Behnke I wanted to quickly share a new online platform that I am lucky to participate in. With works available by the four artists above,  FLATFILE ® is an online project that highlights artwork by emerging and mid-career artists. SFA Projects is the offline, real-world counterpart, offering physical exhibitions on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. For more information and to view available artwork visit  https://flatfile.gallery/

From David Pollack's 7 Trees, Ink on Paper, 2018. Requiem for a Friend by Rainer Maria Rilke (In memoriam Paula Modersohn-Becker) I have my dead, and I have let them go, and was amazed to see them so contented, so soon at home in being dead, so cheerful, so unlike their reputation. Only you return; brush past me, loiter, try to knock against something, so that the sound reveals your presence, Oh don’t take from me what I am slowly learning. I’m sure you have gone astray if you are moved to homesickness for something in this dimension. We transform these things; they aren’t real, they are only the reflections upon the polished surface of our being,      I thought you were much further on. It troubles me that  you  should stray back, you, who have achieved more transformation than any other woman. that we were frightened when you died. . .no; rather: that your stern death broke in upon us, darkly, wrenching the till-then from the ever-since...

Painter, David Pollack at the opening of his first one man show Fifth Season in Brooklyn, NY Jason Rohlf, Farrell Brickhouse and David Pollack.    Robin Stout the founder and director of Stout Projects with Pollack's Spring Sight:Red Hook, Brooklyn , 2015.   Robin Stout, Holly Wilson, and Jon Cowan  James Prez, Farrell Brickhouse, and Len Bellinger   Joanna Karatzas catches up with Farrell Brickhouse   James Prez and Emily Berger   David Pollack signs a copy of his catalogue for Emily Berger   Juan Hinojosa  Riad Miah and Clarity Haynes Vincent Como, Holly Wilson, Debra Ramsay and Jason Rohlf  Installation view David Pollack: Fifth Season On view through May 22 Stout Projects Brooklyn, NY in...

A Tree for Peter , 2013, oil on panel, 12 x 11 inches. Into December: Red Hook, Brooklyn , 2014, oil on panel, 12 x 11 inches. October's End, Red Hook, Brooklyn , 2014, oil on panel, 12 x 11 in. Late Winter: Red Hook, Brooklyn , 2014, oil on panel, 15 x 20 inches. David Pollack is a Brooklyn based painter and musician. From his studio in Red Hook he paints encrusted works that are much more sublime than that adjective implies.  His surfaces can be gemlike or move towards the monochrome but both evoke the light and élan found in the  glistening  seasons and environments that inspire them. Framed Winter Paintings , 2014 Into September: Red Hook, Brooklyn , 2014, oil on panel, 9 x 8 inches. From the Artist's Statement: If an artist comes to nature quietly and humbly, he will always walk away with the answer. To me, that is the secret of painting (and making any kind of art for that matter).  So, ...